Records relating to the University Botany Courses held at RBGE.
- GB 235 RBG/9/1
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Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
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Records relating to the University Botany Courses held at RBGE.
Part of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Institutional Archives
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
Reginald Farrer, box of glass plate negatives
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
1 box of quarter glass plate negatives mainly of plants taken in China[?] but also includes what appears to be [and what the Farrer family claim to be] two of the first complete descent into 'Gaping Gill' near Ingleborough by Martel in 1895[?]
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Box of 35mm slides - various photos taken from the collection to illustrate talks.
Farrer Family Collection - photographic material
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Farrer Family
Farrer/Purdom, Lakeside Horticultural Society Photo Album, Volume 2
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
Inscribed 'J. Purdom, from C.H. Hough, Xmas 1912. This appears to be from Purdom's first expedition to China between 1909 and 1912 and covers Peking, Amdo and River Tow in Tibet, Jehol, Peling Range, Kansu, Choni, and pictures of people and places, including one of Purdom himself.
Purdom, William
Part of George H. Cave Collection
Scrapbooks relating to John MacWatt's life and work
Part of John MacWatt Primula papers
Three scrapbooks relating to John MacWatt's life and work.
MacWatt, Dr. John
Part of Thomas Blaikie collection
Green vellum file, annotated ‘Claims upon the French Government by Thos. Blaikie’, containing 17 handwritten letters and notes by and to Blaikie, mainly in relation to losses incurred during the French Revolution. These include correspondence with the Office of Commissioners for Claims on France, James Lee at the Hammersmith nursery and the Foreign Office. The papers date from 1791 to 1890. (Box 1)
Blaikie, Thomas, 1751-1838, gardener
F.R.S. Balfour Collection: Rhododendron Conference Papers
Part of F.R.S. Balfour Collection
Rhododendron Conference Papers for the Conference planned for 1939
Balfour, Colonel Frederick Robert Stephen
Reginald Farrer, box of artifacts from his family, including his chop and medals
Part of Reginald Farrer Collection
1 box containing Farrer's 'chop' - a wooden stamp used to write his name in Chinese[?], and his medals as follows: 1902; silver Flora medal, RHS, for Alpine Plants at Temple Show; 1903, silver Flora medal, RHS, for Alpines at Temple Show; 1904, silver gilt Flora medal, RHS, for a Rock Garden at Temple Show; 1904, silver gilt Banksian medal, RHS, for Alpines at Holland House Show; 1905, silver gilt Flora medal, RHS, for Alpines at Chelsea Show; 1905, silver Banksian medal, RHS, for Alpines at Temple Show; 1913, silver medal, Shropshire Horticultural Society, for Rock Garden. Also 2 cassette tapes, 1991, in poor condition. [They seem to be a recording of a talk about Farrer given by Joan Farrer.]
Farrer Family